8.8/10605 votesLoading...#1 - Last Ex To Brooklyn
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2003
When Leo invites his hip and trendy ex-girlfriend to a friendly dinner party, Grace turns to Will, Jack and Karen to round out the guest list and keep the night running smoothly. However, when Leo's ex turns out to be the only girl Will ever slept with, Grace's jealousy gets the better of her. Meanwhile, Karen discovers Lorraine's dog Chompers hiding in Stan's closet and searches for a new owner for the puppy.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Alex Herschlag
8.7/10574 votesLoading...#2 - Lows In The Mid-Eighties (1)
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/2000
In a flashback to Thanksgiving 1985, coed Grace invites her college boyfriend Will home to meet her family, but their romantic relationship swerves dramatically when a conflicted Will phones a teenaged Jack for some crucial advice. Unfortunately, Will and an angry Grace end up temporarily estranged when he blurts out the truth and she orders him out of the house -- and her life.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Jeff Greenstein
8.7/10500 votesLoading...#3 - A Chorus Lie
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/2002
Matt Damon makes a guest appearance as a clever charmer named Owen, who's competing against Jack for a spot in New York's Gay Men's Chorus. Truth be told, however, Owen is totally straight and is really after the group's big perk: a summer trip to Europe, all-expenses paid. Jack suspects Owen's ruse but needs proof. How about the hug test? Now a flustered Jack reluctantly turns to Grace to ""in"" Owen. Meanwhile, a scheming Karen tries to pass off an unwitting Will as her lover and not her lawyer when she discovers that she's the object of pity for being single at her own Valentine's Day party
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Jon Kinnally, Tracy Poust
8.6/10495 votesLoading...#4 - Homo For The Holidays
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/25/1999
Will and Grace are shocked to learn that Jack never told his mother he was gay and encourage him to open up to her at Thanksgiving. The evening brings a revelation for Jack as well: his father isn't who he thinks it is.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Alex Herschlag
8.5/10269 votesLoading...#5 - Lows In The Mid-Eighties (2)
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/2000
In a flashback to Thanksgiving 1985, coed Grace invites her college boyfriend Will home to meet her family, but their romantic relationship swerves dramatically when a conflicted Will phones a teenaged Jack for some crucial advice. Unfortunately, Will and an angry Grace end up temporarily estranged when he blurts out the truth and she orders him out of the house -- and her life.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Jeff Greenstein
8.5/10405 votesLoading...#6 - Bed, Bath & Beyond
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/2001
While a baleful Grace wallows in bed as she grieves over losing her boyfriend Nathan, an enterprising Will tries all his old tricks to spring her from her mattress and back into the real world's whirl. But when Jack and Karen arrive, Will fears that their bizarre efforts to help might actually drive Grace futher into her shell -- not to mention therapy.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Jhoni Marchinko
8.4/10466 votesLoading...#7 - Gypsies, Tramps and Weed
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/2000
Will reluctantly decides to use a birthday gift certificate from Grace to consult a psychic about his future and encounters an absent-minded fortune teller whose frighteningly personal predictions leave him reeling. Elsewhere, a guilt-ridden Grace hires a lackadaisical waiter whom she helped to get fired while Jack, who forever idolizes music, TV and film legend Cher, stumbles onto the real deal and meets the Oscar winner herself -- whom he mistakes for a drag queen.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
8.4/10613 votesLoading...#8 - The Finale, Part I
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 5/18/2006
The culmination of eight seasons ends tonight with a one-hour series finale - will Will and Grace raise a child together and find ultimate happiness? Will Jack find anyone that loves him as much as he loves himself? Will Karen find true happiness with the absence of Stan? All these questions and more will be answered as this groundbreaking series concludes eight amazing seasons.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Kohan, Max Mutchnick
8.3/10486 votesLoading...#9 - Das Boob
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/2/1999
A deceiving, but flattering, newspaper photo makes Grace look more ""endowed"" than she really is and gains her the attention of a former high school heartthrob who was never one to keep abreast of her before. Jack is destroyed to learn that Will had a fling with Walter, Jack's ex-boyfriend.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Jhoni Marchinko
8.3/10448 votesLoading...#10 - The Hospital Show
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/28/2000
While on a blind date, Will finds out that Karen's husband Stan has had a heart attack and rushes to the hospital to be with the gang. Will, Jack, Grace, and Rosario all speculate on who Karen will turn to for her inevitable emotional breakdown. After all, who will pay the bills if Stan dies?
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Adam Barr
8.3/10377 votesLoading...#11 - Moveable Feast (1)
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/2001
Rather than be apart on Thanksgiving Day, Will and Grace join Jack and Karen for a festive holiday motor tour of their respective dysfunctional families, including Grace's domineering mother as well as Will's willful mom and Jack's stepdad -- with unsettling results. Meanwhile, back home, a waiting Rosario bastes and tastes their juicy turkey.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Kari Lizer
8.3/10241 votesLoading...#12 - Moveable Feast (2)
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/2001
This episode is also known as "Thanksgiving." Will and Grace join Jack and Karen in a motor tour of their respective families. (Double-length Episode)
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Kari Lizer
8.3/10392 votesLoading...#13 - Bacon And Eggs
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/2002
After stalking actor Kevin Bacon, Jack lands his dream job when the unsuspecting celebrity hires him as his personal assistant and immediately assigns him to find out who's been harassing him. Elsewhere, while Will and Grace wait for the right color to appear on their home pregnancy test, Grace is visited by a handsome doctor who makes her a tempting offer. In addition, Karen looks for a way out of her on-again, off-again relationship with the courtly and irresistible suitor Lionel.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Alex Herschlag
8.3/10464 votesLoading...#14 - Alive and Schticking
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/2005
Grace contemplates having an affair with a married man. Elsewhere, Jack begins new career as a host of his new talk show "Jack Talk." Will gets some advice from Malcolm and tries to hide from Karen the fact that Stan is alive.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Bill Wrubel
8.2/10433 votesLoading...#15 - To Serve and Disinfect
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/23/1999
An unemployed Will agrees to serve as one of Jack's cater-waiters, until he learns that he'll be catering for American Bar Association. Grace discovers Karen's darkest secret: she once made a porn video.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
8.2/10229 votesLoading...#16 - Sons and Lovers (2)
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 5/17/2001
An exasperated Grace tries to mediate between a resentful Will and her sloppy, free-spirited boyfriend Nathan when Nathan moves in while Jack is in a royal dither as he plans to finally meet his unseen father face-to-face. However, Grace grows nervous when the two polar-opposite men find some common ground and she ponders how a devoted boyfriend might affect her equally important relationship with her longtime buddy Will. After settling his father issues, Jack later gets the surprise of his life in a most unexpected fashion.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Kohan, Max Mutchnick
8.2/10310 votesLoading...#17 - 24
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 5/15/2003
Karen, Will, Jack, and Grace go on a trip in Karen's yacht to sprinkle Stan's ashes into the Caribbean while Leo is flying to Guatamala with an atractive co-worker. While Karen sprinkles Stan's ashes she finds Lorraine has been stowing on board. While Karen and Loraiinne fight, Will and Jack get drunk. Lorainne pushes Karen off the board and Rosairo jumps off after her. The next morning Grace finds Leo's bag with a letter from his co-worker Danni saying that she wants Leo. Will wakes up in bed naked with a hangover and a naked Jack in the bed with him. Meanwhile Karen and Rosairo are stuck on a cargo boat.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Jon Kinnally, Kari Lizer, Bill Wrubel, Jhoni Marchinko, Tracy Poust
8.2/10390 votesLoading...#18 - Von Trapped
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 1/5/2006
The "Sound of Music Sing-Along" has come to town and no one is more excited than Grace. She plans for her and Will to attend the musical in character-like style by dressing up in costumes.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
8.1/10481 votesLoading...#19 - The Unsinkable Mommy Adler
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/9/1999
Grace's visiting mom, Bobbi Adler, a would-be star whose propensity for breaking out into show tunes and impressions dismays her daughter – and delights Will, Jack and Karen – wreaks havoc by suggesting Will and Grace wed, despite their sexual differences. When Will winces at the fantasy of committing to anyone who needs to be the star of a relationship, Grace realizes she's more of a chip off the old block than she imagined.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Alex Herschlag
8.1/10329 votesLoading...#20 - Sons and Lovers (1)
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/17/2001
An exasperated Grace tries to mediate between a resentful Will and her sloppy, free-spirited boyfriend Nathan when Nathan moves in while Jack is in a royal dither as he plans to finally meet his unseen father face-to-face. However, Grace grows nervous when the two polar-opposite men find some common ground and she ponders how a devoted boyfriend might affect her equally important relationship with her longtime buddy Will. After settling his father issues, Jack later gets the surprise of his life in a most unexpected fashion.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: David Kohan, Max Mutchnick
8.1/10332 votesLoading...#21 - Crouching Father, Hidden Husband
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/2001
Jack is puffed up with paternal pride as he escorts his long-lost teenaged son Elliot to a junior high school dance but not before he coerces Grace into posing as Elliot's date – which only revives her own tortured memories of rejection from school dances many years before. Elsewhere, Karen has great fun at her lawyer Will's expense when she continues to capriciously summon him for bogus ""emergencies"" – that is, until she really needs him.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Adam Barr
8.1/10294 votesLoading...#22 - 23
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/8/2003
In the middle of her divorce proceedings, Karen learns that ex-husband Stan has suddenly passed away, and the funeral becomes a contest of wills between Karen and her British rival, and a free-for-all when the will is read for everyone who ever felt deserving, such as Will. Meanwhile, Grace is shocked when recently returned husband Leo is called back into service by Doctors Without Borders and asks her to make the trip with him to Guatemala.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Alex Herschlag, Jeff Greenstein, Adam Barr
8.1/10368 votesLoading...#23 - Fanilow
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/2003
Opting out of the annual Grace Adler Design Christmas party, ultimate ""Fanilow"" Will spends the night waiting in line for tickets to a special Barry Manilow concert only to have his weak bladder force him to make a quick pit stop and entrust Grace to hold his place. However, Will's snubbing of an overweight man in the bathroom line leaves his chances of meeting his idol in doubt. Meanwhile, a distraught Grace discovers her mother has cancelled on their annual Hanukkah shopping spree to have dinner with Jack. And Karen is embraced by the inspiring music of Manilow waiting in line with a Fanilow named Cheryl.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Kari Lizer
8.1/10300 votesLoading...#24 - Queens For A Day (2)
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/2004
When Vince's mother injures her leg and is unable to make her traditional Italian Thanksgiving, Will comes to the rescue by offering to make his own special dinner, but Vince's mother refuses to give Will any credit. Meanwhile, Jack gives Vince's sister Ro a few pointers on a big secret she is keeping from her family and fiancé. Meanwhile, Grace and Karen get very cozy with Vince's much younger cousin.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
8.1/10355 votesLoading...#25 - Bathroom Humor
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 1/12/2006
Karen celebrates her birthday with some of New York's crème de la crème, but the festivities turn sour when she ends up crammed in the bathroom with Grace, Will and Jack, who have all embarrassed themselves at the party.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Greg Malins
The Best Episodes of Will & Grace
Every episode of Will & Grace ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Will & Grace!
Will Truman and Grace Adler are best friends living in New York, and when Grace's engagement falls apart, she moves in with Will. Together, along...
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"Last Ex To Brooklyn" is the best rated episode of "Will & Grace". It scored 8.8/10 based on 605 votes. Directed by James Burrows and written by Alex Herschlag, it aired on 10/2/2003. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Lows In The Mid-Eighties (1)".